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Illustrations on bleed-proof paper colored with Prismacolor markers; flats drawn with Micron markers.
Mounted on 14" x 18" Museum board.
For this fall/winter collection, we looked at the designs of Bonnie Cashin and Claire McCardell and discussed how they melded functionality with fashion for the working woman. For my take on the assignment, I created a collection that could be taken from day to night, by changing how a piece of clothing was worn, whether it was changing the styling or, via the convertible pieces that served as the anchors of the collection, actually changing the clothes themselves.
Fall Semester 2008: Sportswear Collection
Illustrations on cold-press watercolor paper and colored with watercolors and colored pencils; flats drawn with Micron markers.
Mounted on 14" x 18" Museum board.
For this fall/winter sportswear collection, I was inspired by the colors of Venice, Titian's portraits, and Renaissance armour.
Wintersession 2008: Fashion Icon.
Illustrations on cold-press watercolor paper, colored with watercolor and colored pencil. Flats illustrated with Micron markers.
Mounted on 14" x 18" museum board. Missing fabric swatches.
For this assignment, we were asked to select a "fashion icon," a designer who made an enormous impact on fashion, research his/her designs and make a short presentation on him/her, and finally design a collection as if you were asked to take that designer's place. I chose Cristobal Balenciaga, the founder of Balenciaga.
The colors for the collection were inspired by the center image in the mood board: very rich, slightly dark and gritty colors like a deep cerulean blue, slate, grape, black, and a crimson red. The mood of the collection was, again, a little bit dark and gritty, but at the same time, very glamorous and sexy, like the femme fatale who sits by herself in some smoky film noir lounge.
I tried to incorporate that woman and Balenciaga's old designs together to create this collection. Like Balenciaga, I tried to keep to very sleek silhouettes and clean lines, with some embellishment that made it a little more special. I incorporated a lot of unfinished hems and ruffles that looked like they'd been shredded into pieces to create that moody feeling and also to add interest to the sleek silhouettes.


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Bravettes finish third; welcome home Sunday
The Annawan Bravettes put their hands on the program's first state tournament trophy Saturday afternoon.
Led by 16 points each from Maddie Jackson and Celina VanHyfte, the Bravettes defeated Cowden-Herrick/Beecher City 47-37 to take third place in the Class 1A girls state basketball tournament at Redbird Arena.
The Bravettes trailed 32-31 going into the fourth quarter and outscored C-H/B-W 16-5 down the stretch to finish the season 30-3. The 30 wins tied last year's squad for most wins in a season.
The team will be welcomed home with a reception at 1 p.m. Sunday at the high school.
For more on Annawan's state tourney experience, read Tuesday's Star Courier and log onto www.starcourier.com Monday for video, photos and stories from Saturday's game.

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design a custom graphic t shirt The Paleo Diet is a Lactose Free eating regimen. Called the Caveman or Hunter-Gatherer weight loss plan. The food regimen consists of lean meat, fowl, fruits and greens. The diet is lactose and preservative free. A wholesome eating regimen that removes or reduces lactose intolerance signs and symptoms. You can still enjoy your favored food you just must put together them a bit differently. A diet so that it will benefit all of us's health.
The Paleo Dairy-Free Diet
The Paleolithic food plan (abbreviated paleo weight loss plan) is suggested for people who require a dairy unfastened food regimen. The Paleo Diet is called the Stone Age weight loss plan and hunter-gatherer food plan. The Paleolithic duration ended with the development of agriculture approximately 10,000 years ago. The modern-day Paleo food regimen includes lean meat fish, culmination, vegetables, roots and nuts. Excluded from the eating regimen are grains, legumes, dairy products, salt, refined sugar, processed ingredients and preservatives.
Lactose Intolerance
Lactose is a sugar determined in milk and milk produces. Lactose intolerance is the incapacity to digest lactose. In the small intestines the enzyme, lactase is deficient in breaking down lactose into two less difficult sorts of sugar paperwork glucose and galactose. When lactose is damaged down into glucose and galactose it's miles allowed to absorb into the blood steam. Lactose intolerance develops over the years and many do now not display signs and symptoms till early adolescence or early maturity.
Lactose intolerance is less common in northern and western European. It is extra common in African, African-American, Native American and Mediterranean populations.
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Lactose intolerance and cow milk allergy aren't the same. Milk allergic reaction is a reaction of the immune device to one or more milk proteins. Milk hypersensitive reactions can appear in the first 12 months of life.
Products containing lactose:
Processed meals have been altered to increase their shelf lifestyles. Not simplest do they have preservative however include degrees of lactose:
-Bread and baked items
-Processed breakfast ingredients: doughnuts, frozen waffles, pancakes, toaster pastries and candy rolls
-Processed cereals
-Instant potatoes, soups and breakfast drinks
-Corn chips, potato chips and different processed snacks
-Processed meats
-Salad dressing
-Liquid and powdered milk based totally meal replacements
-Protein powders and bars
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Gluten-Free Diet: GF Recipes: Stay Crisp Slaw
eight c cabbage, sliced great
1 green pepper, reduce in small portions
2 carrots, grated
half of c onion, chopped
1 envelope unflavored gelatin, softened in 1/4 c water.
2 t celery seed
2/3 c apple cider vinegar
1 t salt
2/3 c sugar
1/four t black pepper
2/three c corn oil
Mix together cabbage, inexperienced pepper, carrots, and onion. Sprinkle with 1/2 cup water, installed refrigerator to crisp.
Combine vinegar, sugar, salt, celery seed and pepper in 1-quart glass degree. Heat within the microwave for two - three half minutes or until it begins to boil. Add the softened gelatin and stir properly. Set aside to cool. When it starts offevolved to jell, beat inside the oil. Drain water off the veggies and add the dressing. Keeps within the fridge for several days
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Gluten-Free Diet: GF Recipes: Spicy Beef and Macaroni
1 pound floor beef
2 cup water
1 medium onion, diced
2 cup GF elbow macaroni
1 inexperienced pepper, diced
1 cup GF barbeque sauce
1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese (optionally available)
In a deep skillet, brown the beef. Add the diced onion and inexperienced pepper; prepare dinner till gentle. Stir in water, macaroni and barbecue sauce.
Cover and simmer until macaroni is smooth
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State program assists struggling homeowners stay out of foreclosure
Homeowners who have gotten behind on their mortgage payments or county property tax payments and are at risk of losing their homes have new hope, thanks to a program funded by the Michigan State Housing Development Authority.
Michigan's Hardest Hit Funds have $548 million available through four programs to address challenges facing homeowners because of "involuntary hardship," explained Jim Buxton, a MSHDA certified housing counselor at Michigan State University Extension in Ionia County.
A qualifying involuntary hardship is caused by an unexpected event beyond the homeowner's control that impacts their ability to make payments. Acceptable hardships are losing a job, income reduction, a medical condition, death, divorce and disability. Unacceptable hardships are not eligible.
"Unacceptable hardships are when you are not being responsible with your budget," Buxton said.
Helping with property taxes is a new aspect of the program, said Judy Clark, Ionia County treasurer. The program can cover past due taxes up to three years ago, and can help homeowners catch up in order to stay out of foreclosure.
"Tax foreclosures have become quite an issue," she said. "They are more and more prominent. Even homeowners who own their homes outright can lose their home because they have fallen behind on property taxes."
When homeowners are able to catch up on their property taxes, the can avoid sizable fees and interest, including forfeiture fees, which are, at a minimum, $200, plus interest, which increases monthly and is retroactive, Clark said.
"This program saves them so much money just to avoid forfeiture or, in the case of 2010 taxes, avoid foreclosure," she added.
The Michigan's Hardest-Hit Funds program includes:
• Unemployment Mortgage Subsidy Program, which will provide half of the monthly mortgage payment for one year – up to $30,000 – while the homeowner is receiving unemployment benefits;
• Loan Rescue Program, which helps homeowners catch up when they have fallen behind on mortgage and/or property tax payments, up to $30,000;
• Modification Plan Program, which will help homeowners catch up on their mortgage, up to $30,000, if their lender agrees to modify their existing mortgage terms;
• Principal Curtailment Program, which helps homeowners with a combined loan balance higher than the value of their home, up to $10,000, if the lender provides a one-to-one match and agrees to modify the existing mortgage terms.
"Life happens, and people get caught in these situations. Now there's help," said Brenda Long, family and consumer sciences educator at Ionia County MSU Extension. "But part of this program is the understanding that this is a one-time fix to get out of the hole and stay current."
The program not only helps with family stability but also with community stability, because neighborhoods stay viable, Long said.
"It also helps the stability of local government, because local property taxes are paid," she added.
To take advantage of the Michigan's Hardest-Hit Funds programs, applications must be in by Jan. 31, in order to prevent tax foreclosures on homeowners who owe 2010 property taxes. Applications are available online, and Buxton and Long are available to help homeowners who don't have a computer to apply or to answer questions. Call 616-527-5357.
More information and the application for the Michigan's Hardest-Hit Funds program is online at www.stepforwardmichigan.org. The site contains step-by-step instructions for filling out the application. Homeowners also can call toll-free at 866-946-7432 and receive help applying.
A video in which Buxton, Long and Clark explain more about the program is at www.sentinel-standard.com/videos.
MSU Extension offers other programs for people looking to build their money management skills, including online and on-site classes. Call 616-527-5357 to learn more.
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Thursday is Teddy Roosevelt's birthday, and what better way to celebrate than to relive some of the top presidents race moments of 2011 (at least according to the Nationals).
The Nats staff has compiled a fun video for Nationals.com highlighting some the more memorable triumphs and mishaps of 2011.
Notably absent are the two races from the final weekend the season in which Jayson Werth tried to take over the presidents race. It was a National story, but one the Nats' marketing brass would prefer to bury. In fact, the Nationals have never released video of those two races.
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A good friend, originally from Samarkand in Uzbekistan, – a college professor who teaches in Manhattan – invited me to a melave malkah last night at his daughter's house, not far from me. The main features were Uzbeki lamb based delicacies, samsa (round meat pies filled with lamb) and manty.
The lady of the house graciously agreed to share with us this simple, delicious recipe:
2 packages of pastry dough
2 lbs finely chopped lamb
3 lbs finely chopped onions
salt and pepper to taste
Mix the lamb, the onions, the salt and pepper in a bowl. When well mixed take a small quantity and put it on one of the square pieces of dough, close up the dough in the shape of a ball. Bake for 30-40 minutes at 350° F, until a golden brown crust has formed.
There were six of us at the table and there was plenty, including leftovers, for everyone of us.
For taste variations you may use any other meat and your own favorite spices. When you've bitten into a round pie sprinkle some vinegar/olive oil on it and enjoy!
The wine that accompanied our meal was a delightful Argentinian non-mevushal 2007 Flechas De Los Andes Gran Malbec. This wine has a lovely floral lift with intense, smooth, chocolatey black fruit. It has plenty of nice mouthfeel and presence, very rich on the finish.
All in all a delightful evening, with great company, great food and lots of good conversation.


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Morning Minutes: Dec. 29
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hardihood \HAHR-dee-hood\ (noun) 1. boldness or daring; courage. 2. audacity or impudence. 3. strength; power; vigor: the hardihood of youth. 4. hardy spirit or character; determination to survive; fortitude: the hardihood of early settlers. — www.dictionary.com
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1.25 million: On this date in 1997, Hong Kong began to kill all the nation's 1.25 million chickens to stop the spread of a potentially deadly influenza strain.
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Dec. 29, 1851: The first American YMCA opens in Boston.
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"To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all." — Anatole France


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(Update 3/14/13: For my 2013 gluten-free Passover list, click here.)
Passover, an eight-day holiday that celebrates when the Jews were freed from slavery in Egypt, seems to be a great gluten-free holiday. On Passover, we cannot eat any leavened bread — basically, no wheat, rye, barley, spelt or oats. Sounds great so far, right? But here's the rub: On Passover, we eat matzo, which is made from wheat. Many Passover foods are made with matzo meal, so you need to read labels carefully to avoid matzo meal. Still, Passover is a great opportunity to stock up on some gluten-free foods that are hard to find year-round.
Gluten-free Passover foods are either marked as "gluten free" or as "non-gebrokts" (which means it does not contain matzo meal and is therefore gluten-free). While there are many gluten-free Passover products, many of them are expensive, don't taste great and don't have much nutritional value. That's due to Passover prohibitions against other foods such as rice, corn and soy, which means that most Passover products rely on potato starch and lack in taste and nutrition.
I used to buy bags of gluten-free products during Passover, but I don't do that as much anymore. (Well, that's what I say, but my grocery bills and pantry indicate otherwise.) I skip most of the Passover cookies and cake mixes, as well as the Passover noodles, waffles and pizza made with potato flour; they're simply not worth the poor taste and the expense.
If you can find a grocery store with a large kosher section, or a dedicated kosher grocery store, look for these gluten-free, kosher for Passover products that have made it into my grocery cart. (These represent my personal opinion. I am not compensated for reviews, nor did I accept free samples.)
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— Yehuda Gluten-Free Matzo-Style Squares. A couple of years ago, the only gluten-free matzo on the market tasted like cardboard and cost $35 per box. I am thrilled about the Yehuda Gluten-Free Matzo-Style Squares, which taste like a thin and flavorful flatbread and cost only $5.99 to $6.99 on sale. This year, Yehuda has a toasted onion flavor, which I have not yet tried. You might notice the box says "not for sacramental purposes." That's because, religiously, matzo should be made from wheat, rye, barley, spelt or oats. If you want a more official matzo, try Lakewood Gluten-Free Oat Shmurah Matzah ($25.99), made from oats and certified gluten-free.
— Lieber's Knaidel Mix. This is my favorite gluten-free matzo ball mix, which makes light and fluffy matza balls (called knaidlach in Yiddish). My guests have asked for seconds, unaware that the matzo balls were gluten-free. The Knaidel Mix can be hard to find, so I bought six boxes to last throughout the year. Another gluten-free matzo ball option is Frankel's Matzo-Free Balls. These premade frozen gluten-free matzah balls are convenient to take to my mother-in-law's house and drop in her chicken soup.
— Spring Valley Breaded Chicken Pattie Nuggets. Don't let the "breaded" fool you, these frozen chicken nuggets are coated with potato starch. It's hard to find gluten-free kosher chicken nuggets, so I bought four bags of these tasty nuggets. Make sure the bag is labeled kosher for Passover and non-gebrokts. I also bought Spring Valley Frozen Stuffed Chicken Rolls (a good gluten-free kosher quick lunch) and Meal Mart Potato and Pastrami Knishes, both of which are labeled non-gebrokts. (Update: I didn't like the pastrami knishes — way too salty.)
— Spring Valley Blintzes. It's impossible to find gluten-free blintzes during the year, so I stock up on these "non-gebrokts" or gluten-free frozen blintzes, which come in cheese, apple and blueberry flavors. Make sure the box is labeled kosher for Passover and non-gebrokts, as only the Passover blintzes are gluten-free.
— Kedem Gourmet Gefilte Fish. Gefilte fish traditionally is a part of Passover meals, but most gefilte fish contains matzo meal (wheat). The Kedem Gourmet line is made without matzo meal, is gluten-free and does not contain MSG.
— Streit's Macaroons. I love coconut macaroons and am always tempted by the variety of different flavors. Most are gluten-free, but I was happy to see that this year the Streit's label proclaims "gluten-free." I avoid a lot of Passover packaged cookies, because I try not to have too many sweets in the house. I did buy a box of Gefen Gluten-Free Almond Cookies, because they look like almond cookies from old-school Chinese restaurants. I also bought a Manischewitz Chocolate Macaroon Pie Shell; maybe there's an ice cream pie or chocolate mousse pie in my future. Shabtai Gourmet, a kosher bakery, is dedicated to baking gluten-free Passover goodies year-round. Try their Baby Swiss Rolls (think Ho Hos). Oberlander's and Hagadda also have a selection of gluten-free Passover cakes and cookies, like black-and-white cookies; all are pretty expensive and overly sugary, though.
— Did you know that most licorice contains wheat? It's hard to find gluten-free licorice, which is why I was happy to pick up Sweet Goodies Gluten-Free Licorice, new this year from Kedem Foods, in strawberry, sour strawberry, sour green apple and sour blueberry. Update: Skip the Sweet Goodies licorice; you need jaws like a claw hammer to chew it. (When it's not Passover, I also like Clif Kid Twisted Fruit Rope as a gluten-free licorice substitute.) For a salty snack, I bought Paskesz Onion Rings. Update: Skip those too, they are incredibly salty and artificial tasting and don't actually include onion.
— My mother always serves mandlen, or "soup nuts," with chicken soup on Passover. Lieber's Mini Mandlin are gluten-free, and my kids like tossing them into their soup. Oberlander's Soup Mandlen and Osem Soup Mandel Rings are also gluten-free.
— I'm looking forward to using Jeff Nathan Creations Gluten-Free Panko Crumbs as a gluten-free crumb coating for chicken and fish. I also bought Paskesz Bake or Fry Coating Crumbs.
— This was the first year I saw tapioca starch in the Passover aisle. I like the fact that the Gefen Tapioca Starch comes in an easily reclosable canister, as usually my bags of tapioca starch become powdery disasters. I also bought two canisters of potato starch, because I like the reclosable canister and it's good for gluten-free baking throughout the year.
Again, Passover is a good time to stock up on some unusual gluten-free foods. But try not to buy too much (as I ended up doing), because the food is expensive. Some Passover products don't taste great, but the above foods make it to our Passover table (although I haven't tried all of the foods yet, since Passover hasn't started).


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SeaWorld plans bigger killer whale environments
NEW YORK – After more than a year of public criticism of its treatment of killer whales, SeaWorld said Friday that it will build new, larger environments at its theme parks and will fund additional research on the animals along with programs to protect ocean health and whales in the wild.
The Orlando, Florida, company said the renovations have been in the works for some time and that they are not a response to the documentary "Blackfish" or the criticism of the company that followed the release of the film.
The company's shares, which are trading near their lowest point since SeaWorld listed its stock on public markets last year, rose Friday. But it remains to be seen if the renovations will fully address concerns about keeping large marine mammals in captivity.
The 2013 documentary "Blackfish" suggested that captivity and SeaWorld's treatment of the whales provoke violent behavior, which in turn has led to the death of trainers. Since the release of the film, a series of entertainers have pulled out of planned performances at SeaWorld parks. SeaWorld also recently said its longtime corporate partnership with Southwest Airlines is ending, and on Wednesday the company reported disappointing second-quarter financial results because of the backlash.
SeaWorld Entertainment Inc. says it will build a tank with 10 million gallons of water at its San Diego park, almost twice the size of the current tank with a depth of up to 50 feet. The new environment will be called the Blue World Project, and SeaWorld said it will include features that will be more stimulating for the whales. Those include a "fast water current" that will allow the whales to swim against moving water.
The facility will open to the public in 2018, and after that SeaWorld will make similar changes at its Orlando, Florida and San Antonio locations.
The company said the cost of the project will be in the hundreds of millions of dollars but would not specify the exact budget.
The company is also pledging $10 million in matching funds to support research focused on threats to killer whales, or orcas, in the wild. It also announced a $1.5 million commitment to a partnership focused on ocean health.
Former SeaWorld trainer Mark Simmons praised the moves, saying the new environments will provide the whales with mental stimulation that will help keep them healthy. He said the content of the whales' environment is even more important than the size, and that SeaWorld's trainers do a good job of interacting with the whales. He said and the new features of Blue World Project will give them new tools that will let them improve.
"I think it's an enhancement, an obvious evolution of SeaWorld's mission," Simmons said in a phone interview. Simmons worked at SeaWorld Orlando from 1986 to 1996.
"Blackfish" director Gabriela Cowperthwaite said the changes won't please the public or improve the lives of its whales. She said that in captivity the whales are forcibly bred, separated from their families and fight constantly for dominance. She added that the larger tanks may not mean the whales will have more room, as SeaWorld plans to expand to other countries and could use the additional space to breed the whales more often.
"None of this would change in a bigger pool," she said. "What people are upset about is that whales are not suitable to captivity."
Cowperthwaite said SeaWorld should instead create oceanic sanctuaries that will let the whales live out their lives in more natural environments.
It's difficult to assess how the whales do in captivity, said Dr. Douglas DeMaster, the research and science director for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Alaska region fisheries.
"We don't really have standards that can be measured to assess animal welfare for captive marine mammals," he said in an email.
On Wednesday SeaWorld reported net income and revenue that fell short of Wall Street expectations and the company withdrew its financial outlook for the year. Its revenue in the second quarter was about $40 million less than analysts had expected, and the company said "Blackfish" hurt attendance.
"Blackfish" explores the death of veteran SeaWorld trainer Dawn Brancheau, who was pulled off a platform and killed by a whale named Tilikum in 2010. The film argues that the whales become more aggressive toward humans and each other when they are kept in captivity.
Several entertainers, including country singers Trisha Yearwood and Willie Nelson and rock band Barenaked Ladies, have pulled out of planned performances at SeaWorld parks since the film's release. In July, Southwest Airlines and SeaWorld said they were ending a 25-year marketing partnership at the end of this year. SeaWorld said the decision was mutual, and said it wants to concentrate on growing markets in Latin America and Asia.
SeaWorld stock rose 66 cents, or 3.7 percent, to $18.66 Friday. The shares have dropped 35 percent this year.


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[Rafi Farber, a friend and faithful blog reader, is a director at zoara.com. In this, his third post on these pages, he continues to expound on the connection between the TaNa"CH and jewelry. CS]
There are always previously un-thought of connections to be made and the map of the Torah never ceases to reveal new patterns as one generation builds upon the preceding one. So here is the connection between the plague of darkness, Egyptian jewelry, and Hashem's covenant with Abraham 430 years before the Exodus took place.
The plague of darkness was rather setting the ground for the death of the firstborn and the imminent Exodus from Egypt than it was a plague in and of itself. It was one day before the darkness – the tenth of Nissan – when Moses relayed the Divine command to tie a sheep to the bedpost, in preparation for its sacrifice and the death of the Egyptian first born. The Israelites were commanded to tie up the sheep before the darkness set in, so that the Egyptians could clearly see what they were doing.
Further, our sages say that during the plague of darkness, four fifths of the Jewish people actually died – those that did not intend on leaving. They couldn't be allowed to simply stay behind and cause a desecration of the Almighty's name, nor could they be allowed to die in sight of the Egyptians and lead to the same. Hakadosh Baruch Hu had other plans in bringing the darkness upon Egypt – to prepare the ground and to take care of some back-issues, so to speak, with Israel.
But there was one other thing the darkness was made to do, as emphasized by Rabbi S.R. Hirsch in the 19th century. During the plague of darkness, no Egyptian moved an inch. The darkness was so thick it was tangible. If a front door was open, it stayed open. If a gate was unlocked, it stayed unlocked. Everything – every Egyptian possession, treasure, valuable, was available for the taking. And yet, when the darkness cleared and the light of night began to "shine," relatively speaking (the darkness ended at night), nothing had moved. All valuables were still there, nothing was stolen, and everything was where it should have been. The Israelites didn't steal a single Egyptian penny.
This, more than anything else, showed the moral superiority of the Israelites. The Egyptians suddenly realized who they had been enslaving, who they had been brutally murdering for the past 210 years. A decent, moral people who wouldn't steal even from their enemies.
At that point, God makes a request of Moses. He actually says please. "Please," says God, "Tell the Israelites to ask their neighbors for their possessions, their riches, their jewelry, their clothing, please take it all.
No wonder the Egyptians immediately shoved everything they owned at the Jews. They didn't take anything during the darkness, but now they were asking nicely? Take it! Take it all!
But why did God say "please?"
RaSH"I explains that Hashem said "please" because He didn't want Abraham coming to Him accusing Him of reneging on the promise of the Brit Beyn HaBetarim – that the Jews would leave Egypt with great wealth. Therefore, He asked us to cover His back and finish the redemption process.
It's the same with any redemption. We always have to take the last step. Otherwise nothing works. Without us completing the process, nothing even makes any sense. Ultimately, we'll finish it, just like we did with the Paschal Lamb and the blood on the doorpost so God would pass over our houses; just like we did at the Red Sea when Nachshon ben Aminadav jumped in; just like we did with the Egyptians' jewelry and just like we will do, eventually, in the State of Israel.
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Carolyn Hax: Moving for husband's promotion stirs debate
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Dear Carolyn: I almost always agree with your advice, or don't strongly disagree, but this is an exception (bit.ly/2hrMove), about moving two hours away for a husband's promotion. What's the big deal? Nine of the 11 members of my women's book club said of course they would move. Of the dissenters, both are caring for ill family members. Three of us have moved to support our husbands' careers and one husband has moved to support his wife. In this day of Internet communication, this is nothing. To her question of whether she's overreacting, our response is, absolutely.
— Moving
Here's why I disagree: I have moved, a lot. I have a career I love. So does my husband. I have young kids. I have worked from my home and from an office. I have worked from home while having small kids, with both in-home and center-based child care. I have lived in extremely welcoming communities; ones that took a little time to break into; and one where the flippin' neighbors didn't even wave hello. Not an exaggeration.
So, I don't have any one experience or bias coloring my answer.
The question touched on (1) Career; (2) Child-rearing; (3) Community; and (4) Marriage. It is absolutely perverse to me — yes, perverse, I feel very strongly about this — that one consideration among these four would get some kind of automatic pass as the thing this person should value, and therefore agree to. This move might be a no-brainer to your book group, but someone else could rightly say the whole point of jobs and kids and marriage and etc. is to root oneself in a community that provides support, companionship, laughs, whatever else.
Being two hours or even a split-the-baby one-hour drive from this community is so emphatically not the same thing. It means you can't grab a 15-minute cup of coffee, or reciprocate kid care, or do any such minute community transactions. It means you can have dinner once a month, maybe, but please can't we agree that's very different from living right where you want to be?
And so the only people who get to decide which of the Big Four to prioritize are the couple in question.
That was my advice in the original column, and I stand by it.
Hi, Carolyn: My husband and I made this decision five years ago. I work at home — toddler and baby in day care — and it is TOUGH to be so isolated in a community where we haven't had the time/opportunity to establish bonds. It has strained our marriage and we're having to seriously re-evaluate if this decision is the right one for us now. When I share any of these feelings, we've received several of the same comments. I don't understand the strong judgment.
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It's no less than a "What's the meaning of life?" question, and I doubt anyone would want to live by someone else's answer to that.
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Riding the midnight train from San Francisco to Palo Alto the other night, a man sat across from me and politely asked if I was expecting anyone to take the seat next to mine. When I said no, he stretched his legs out, placed his sneakered feet on the seat and proceeded to take a nap.
My blood boiled. Not with the anticipation that I was going to have to wake him up when it was time for me to get off the train (which I did). Not because he was old enough (50 plus) to know that his feet, no matter how clean they seemed, did not belong on the "furniture."
My blood boiled because he could enjoy the privilege of resting easy because he was white.
I should add that he was white, apparently middle class and well groomed; no one would mistake him for a homeless person in search of a night's shelter.
My blood boiled because had he been a black or Latino man of any age, well-groomed or not, had he been a passenger on a New York subway rather than Caltrain, he would likely have been arrested and carted off to jail.
A New York Times article "Relax, if you want, but don't put your feet up," published earlier this month, precipitated my rage. The article chronicles the New York Police Department's practice of arresting passengers who take up more than one seat, deliberately or inadvertently, or block the movement of the doors.
William D. Peppers, a black man, was on a nearly empty train around 4 a.m. on his way to his bakery job and had stretched out his legs. He spent 12 hours in jail, pleaded guilty and lost a day of work.
Juan Castillo, a diabetic, was arrested for putting his feet on a subway seat to give himself an insulin injection. He was arrested and denied insulin for 30 hours, but he won a judgment from the city for $150,000.
Flavio Uzhca, a restaurant chef from Ecuador, was detained for standing in the doorway of a packed subway train and was ultimately deported.
When 30-year-old Abdi Omar was charged with having his feet on the seat, he said he was told there was an outstanding warrant for his arrest. He refused to be fingerprinted and was sent for psychiatric evaluation. The warrant was never produced.
I don't know the racial identity of Michael Weaver, a 20-year-old construction worker, who was arrested on Thanksgiving while he was on his way home to Harlem after having dinner with his girlfriend's family. Here's how the Times described his experience: "As he rode an empty E train, Mr. Weaver said, he nodded off and his right knee and thigh leaned on the empty seat next to him. Just before 1 a.m., he said, he was jolted awake by a police officer who accused him of taking up more than one seat. After he spent the night in a cell with two dozen men, he appeared before Judge Toko Serita. The judge offered to dismiss the case if he stayed out of trouble for six months," the article said. This should give pause to anyone with a 20-something child.
The NYPD's official line is that attention to major and minor offenses has contributed to the decline in subway crime. Its spokesperson told the Times that many of the subway seat arrests the department has made have resulted in the apprehension of serious offenders.
Unofficially, one officer said he and his colleagues are under pressure to "'bring in one collar' each month. The officer, speaking anonymously, was generally disdainful of making arrests for seat violations, but pointed out that stopping people on these charges allowed officers to check them for outstanding warrants. 'It quite often happens with people laying down on the seats — sure, it could be an empty train, but you stop them and if they don't have their ID, you have your collar,' he said."
Since when did you need an ID to ride the subway?
I should point out that the Times article did not cast this as a racial or gender issue. In fact, the main photo that accompanies the article is of a woman, of undetermined race, with her feet on the seat in front of her and her bag on the seat beside her.
But the result will no doubt be the harassment and criminalization and ultimate disenfranchisement of more black and brown people for "offenses" that would likely go unnoticed but for the color of their skin.


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Oat, Pear, and Raspberry Loaf
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Last night, someone put up a video of my high school's 2010-2011 homecoming assembly. For a moment I was brought back to senior year – I knew exactly how the new seniors felt sitting in those bleachers. It was so surreal to suddenly realize that high school was continuing without me. All the sophomores and juniors I knew are upperclassmen now, my old friends are scattered across the country, yet life goes on like normal back home.
Then I realized that Boston is home.
I still haven't felt homesick yet. I just don't have the time. My journalism homework is very hands-on, sending me into the city for interviews and investigations. I'm submitting short stories and articles to the literary magazines. I joined the photography club in a heartbeat, and I'm smitten. Every week we get a new assignment and arrive with a new photo to critique. It's inspiring me to look at the world from new angles and keep a camera with me at all times.
And for 15 hours a week, I'm a reporter and writer in the news department of my school's radio station. I'm learning so much (mostly from my mistakes) and absorbing as much as I can from the experienced vets. I've never read the paper as often, stayed so up-to-date with the news, or known so much about Massachusetts politics. I've also never heard my voice coming out the radio until now, but there's a first for everything.
After a long day, when I get off the T and see my dorm in the distance – I get the same feeling I used to get when I pulled into the driveway of my house. The comfort of knowing you're safe and just seconds away from where you belong.
Every day, I have to remind myself that I've only been here a month. I feel like I've known my new friends for years – we have classes together, late night talks, we support each other without judgment and love each other like family. The city of Boston, too, already feels familiar. I'm spending enough time off campus that I can navigate parts of Boston based on street names and landmarks, without a map. In four weeks, I've fallen into a steady rhythm.
I didn't know I could be so busy. Every Monday morning I drag myself to my 8 am class, clinging to sleep until I sit down in the cold classroom. I've written pages and pages of notes for my literature of the Americas class, the most difficult course I'm taking. And I adore my photography class, even though it's in the furthest building from my dorm, even though I have to cross rainy streets and climb the stairs up because the elevators are full.
In the evenings my floor hangs out in the common room, passing around a bag of honey pretzels and a tub of Nutella. I stop at the cafe to wolf down a panini between classes. But best of all, every weekend I visit the nearest Trader Joe's for soy milk, yogurt, crackers and veggie chips. Then there are the farmers markets – Copley on Tuesdays, Haymarket on Fridays – and it almost feels like Seattle again.
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I've been visiting the local farmers markets since my first weekend here. Haymarket, especially, offers the cheapest produce around. Six plums for a dollar? A huge plastic bag of bright green grapes for two dollars? I circle around the market in search of the perfect buy, like a lost bird looking for home. Two weeks ago my roommate E- bought a mini fridge for us to share, and I lost any excuse not to stock up on fruits and veggies.
The markets were overflowing with August's bounty during my first visit. I passed over papery zucchini blossoms, like half-folded origami cranes. I couldn't resist a tiny jar of blackberry jam at one vendor, an almond pastry at another. I tried my first concord grape. Over the past few weeks I've watched the summer produce slowly transition into baskets of butternut squash, dusty beets, and sweet potatoes heavy as stones. And… pears.
For some reason, nothing feels more like autumn to me than a ripe pear. The trees in the Boston Common have begun to turn scarlet at the tips. Some afternoons I step outside to fat raindrops splattering in every direction – yesterday, it was so blustery, my umbrella broke. But nothing has made it feel more like October than those green farmers market pears, bent stems and brown freckles and all.
I like to eat pears in just about every way imaginable. Raw, consumed in large, unashamed bites. Sliced and spread with a slathering of peanut butter, or poached in white wine. Maybe best of all? Diced and tossed with fresh raspberries, baked into a soft loaf with oats and a crunchy topping.
I've wanted to make this for ages and ages and ages, since I bought the cookbook second-hand three years ago. I thumbed through it and dog eared this recipe that very day, but didn't bake it until this summer. I made it twice. The first time it came out all wrong, but I tried again with some significant tweaks, and found the perfect balance.
The loaf is moist, and the brown sugar granola topping is crisp and crumbly. I was surprised by how strongly the loaf tasted like rolled oats, but I liked the rustic, homemade feel it gave every slice. The center is marbled with a ribbon of raspberries, the occasional burst of sweetness… I'm sighing as I write this. I miss mornings when I used to bake breakfast and eat it at noon.
Oat, Pear, and Raspberry Loaf
Adapted from bills open kitchen
Makes a 8 1/2" by 4 1/2" loaf
Crunchy Granola Topping
1/4 cup (25 g) rolled oats
1/4 cup (55 g) brown sugar
2 tablespoons all purpose flour
2 tablespoons (1 oz) chilled butter, cut into small pieces
Oat, Pear, and Raspberry Loaf
1 cup (100 g) rolled oats
1 cup (250 g) boiling water
11 tablespoons (150 g) unsalted butter
1/2 cup (115 g) brown sugar
1/4 cup (55 g) granulated sugar
2 eggs, room temperature
1 tsp vanilla extract
Zest of a tangerine
1 1/2 cups (185 g) all purpose flour
Pinch of salt
1 tsp baking powder
Few generous shakes of ground cinnamon
1 pear, peeled, cored, and diced
3/4 cup (90 g) raspberries, fresh or frozen
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Butter a 8 1/2" by 4 1/2" loaf pan and line the bottom with parchment paper (not 100% necessary, but it's nice to be safe.)
To make the topping, combine all the topping ingredients in a small bowl and rub with your fingertips until the mixture is well incorporated and forms small clumps.
To make the loaf, pour the boiling water over the rolled oats and set aside until lukewarm. Squeeze out the extra water.
Cream the butter and sugars until light and creamy. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well between eggs, then mix in the vanilla extract and tangerine zest. Sift the flour, salt, baking powder, and cinnamon over the creamed butter. Add the drained oats and half of the diced pear, and fold the whole mixture with a rubber spatula until combined.
Spread 2/3 of the batter into the loaf pan. Sprinkle the remaining diced pear and the raspberries. Smooth the remaining 1/3 of the batter over the fruit, then sprinkle the topping evenly over it. [The batter will probably completely fill the loaf pan without leaving any room – it's okay, mine went all the way to the top but didn't rise much or spill. You might want to put a rimmed baking pan on a lower rack of the oven just in case it overflows.]
Bake for an hour and ten minutes, or until a skewer inserted into the cake comes out clean (keep in mind that the pear and raspberries will stay moist.) Cool in the pan for 10 minutes, then run a knife along the edges and turn out onto a cooling rack to cool completely.
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I love reading all about your life in Boston. It sounds like a beautiful city, and even better with a group of great friends. Elissa, we must talk soon.
This loaf? Gorgeous. We've never had pears around the house, but this could be a great reason to go out and grab some :).
It sounds like you are having the time of your life in Boston. I knew that this was a Bill Granger recipe as soon as I saw the picture – I love him! He makes such beautiful, healthy recipes which are full of flavour. I think I'm going to have to make it again!
yummo :)
Q. are you a very health consious eater? and are you overweight, underweight or healthy weight? x
This morning I read a wonderful story about you in the Pacific Northwest section of the Seattle Times.
You are truly a gifted writer, photographer, and amazing baker/chef.
I especially love the fact that you love your parents what lucky folks they are to have you.
Best wishes for continued success in all that you do,
Loved reading your post about your life in Boston. And your bread looks fantastically yummy! I definitely am going to bookmark your recipe.
your posts always make my day :)
i'm doing 3rd year journalism in South Africa, would be interesting to see how our courses are similar/different. do you have a course outline?
sounds like you're having the ultimate college experience. it's awesome how you've been able to immerse yourself into hands-on journalism so quickly. i remember when i started as a freshman, i was stuck in those core courses and it wasn't until at least sophomore year we did anything related to our majors.
anyway, i was reading an article about legislation regarding how doctors and hospitals may get paid differently in mass (researching for work). then i saw the author's name. i was like no way, could it be? and by that random discovery, i think i know what college you are at. congratulations again, they have such a great communications/journalism program!
Congratulations on the success of all your efforts. Enjoy your college years and keep baking your wonderful goodies!
It's so good to hear from you and see how college life is going. I'd love to see some of the photos you are taking for your class- any chance of putting some of those up?? :)
Enjoyed your article in the Seattle Times about leaving for Boston with your trunk packed with baking equipment. When I was in college in Berkely in the early 1970s, I too was smitten by the romance of steamer trunks. A college friend a couple years older who had dual US and British citizenship. When she graduated college, she bought a very large trunk (one almost waist high), gave away most of her possessions, packed all that remained into the trunk and left for England to find a job. It seemed so romantic that I thought–hey, I'll buy a trunk too. In the 1970s trunks were much easier to find. At a second hand store where they had a stack of them that reached to the ceiling, I bought one that had built-in drawers on one side and a little secret pull-out drawer built into the back of the first drawer. When I graduated, I tried to squeeze all my possesions into the trunk before moving out of state. That proved to be impossible–I had some leftover stuff–but I did leave with the trunk and have it to this day, using it as a coffee table.
Best wishes on your college adventure. Boston is a great city. Check out the glass flowers exhibit at the Natural History Museum at Harvard campus.
Glad you love Boston. I knew you would.
Please let us know how we can access your writing as things get published.
This loaf is surely not the prettiest thing you've ever baked. Nonetheless, only imagining what it tastes like makes my mouth water (trying to avoid the word 'drool'), it's surreal in its yummyness.
You know, for us less fortunate people who have absolutely no hand for cooking, this is almost like browsing in a way too expensive shop. Speaking for myself, I come here, read your text and let it marvel me – always.
Then there are the lucky ones who can dare to try your recipes. I always envy them. To be perfectly honest with you, I don't read the recipe itself… Sometimes, out of sheer curiosity, I go to the ingredients list, and then think "Yeah, dream on, Marta". Yes, I definitely belong in the "dreamer" category! It's really not fair, my grandmother could cook just about anything, she even wrote a cook book for her daughters, but it was my cousin who got the "gene", not me. Me, I can prepare milk bottles for babies with my eyes closed… :) Do I have a point? Yes: some of us come here just for your writings and pictures (please don't be offended, I'm quite sure this is not new to you, and, believe me, you would cry if you saw me try to cook/bake). So, I am really glad that we'll be getting even more of you in the future, when you become a journalist. Yes, us, all over the world! :)
I'm from Boston originally (I'm at school in Rhode Island right now), and while I was interning over the summer there was always a great farmers market outside of Government Center. It's not as big as Haymarket, but they have great breads (there's a black bean chipotle that's amazing) and homemade hummus :)
Hope you're loving Boston, it's definitely a great place!
I, too, read the Pacific Magazine article this morning and was inspired to get into the kitchen! You are a very talented young woman and I wish you all the best in achieving your goals. I did, indeed, spend the day cooking and baking. The family favorite was a pie baked with apples purchased from the U District farmer's market yesterday. I cannot remember the variety, but they are pink fleshed with yellow/green skin. The pie filling is a beautiful rose color and it tasted as delightful as it looked. Wish I could share with you! Has anyone else tried these apples?
Oh my goodness, I have not had time to look at your blog in such a long time but I decided I needed a break right now (ugh, physics test in the morning so I should probably study). I love how you've figured out where to get all of your ingredients for baking! You need to show me around the produce markets so I can buy stuff other than junk food all the time. xD
I'm so proud of you!! Congrats with the radio station again. =]
I also enjoyed reading your article this morning. As many people have stated, you are a gifted writer, photographer and baker! I look forward to reading your post.
Oh, my!!!!!!!!! Those colors are fantastic!!!!!!!!! I love the raspberry color next to the pear color, a match made in heaven. My favorite photo, though, has to be the one with the raspberrys in the tin and the glow of raspberrys shining off the side. WOW!!!!!!!!!!!! They are all such a delightful feast for the eyes. Yummy!!!!!!! I'm thrilled you are sharing your life out there in Boston with us. Keep it all coming and thank you for all that you do. <3
Yummy! I printed out the recipe. Love the pictures that you take. You are a very talented young woman.
I adore your blog. While most other blogs are focused entirely on the food, the recipes and being witty-your blog is like reading a good book. I feel like I'm right beside you as you walk through the farmers markets touching and tasting. Your are on your way to becoming a great writer.
So glad you are getting the whole different region thing. Food, plants and produce are such an awesome part of the world's diversity. Also pretty glad that your blog is so wonderfully revealing about the exciting new chapter of Elissa. Thanks for keeping us posted. Nice article in the Times.
Much Love
Mr D
The way you write about Boston brings me back to my first few weeks as a freshman at Lasell College – I only went there for four years of school, but I miss that city every day. Thankfully, I'm going back for a friend's wedding this week and will get to experience Boston again, but wherever I am, it will always be home. You're very lucky!
Hi Elissa, I am new to your blog but just wanted to say that I am so completely enamored with it! Your clarity of voice and awareness makes me wish I could go back to my first year of college and do it all over again with the same bright-eyed openess you are describing to us all. Heck, I wish I could have that type of awareness now! I look forward to hearing about your college experiences.
Maybe you could get to know the cooking staff at your dorm and make "suggestions." Never hurts to try to change the institutional mind-set that we all need to eat mushy green beans!
I read your article in the Seatle times and my husband is right you are a great writer. I am loving all the references to Boston. I went to BU and I loved it. In the Spring try and find one of the festivals for Saints in the North End, well if you stay over the summer, I have not been back to Boston in over 10 years and I miss it. You are in a great town for college and it sounds like you are enjoying it. I would love pictures of Boston. If you are at BU (or some other college with Brownstones as dorms) some do have kitchens in the common areas. I was a RA at 506 Beacon and at that time they had a kitchen in the basement. I baked a few times.
Your blog makes me very, very, very, very HUNGRY!
It's become a tiny bit surreal, reading a blogger I admire so much (as always, your writing is beautiful!) who now lives in my own city. I know exactly what the weather was like on Friday. Sunday evening I walked past Neptune Oyster. I too, am watching the leaves change. It's lovely to see the city through another perspective! That said, I, as well as many others, I'm sure, would love to see your photos of Boston – the club sounds fantastic!
Oh my! The combination of flavors looks amazing! YUM! This has been bookmarked :)
Mary xo
Delightful Bitefuls
Wow! I love the photos :) Must try this sometime! Xinmei
I've gotta say that as a senior in high school right now, reading this and hearing how much you're enjoying college has made me feel a little more comfortable and excited for my upcoming freshman year… although, I'm still pretty freaked out about the concept of not being able to cook or bake… haha! Good luck with everything! :)
– Louisa
I want some can? i am hungry now..
Hi, can you please tell me what you mean when you say 'squeeze out all the extra water' of the oats? How? What do you mean? Thanks, I love your blog!
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I can imagine the feeling of being homesick, and know that it is something I will become familiar with when I leave for college. I applaud you on being able to adapt to life in Boston, it is something that not all people are able to do. I believe that finding things that remind you of home, i.e. the farmers markets, is a key in being able to look at Boston as your new home. I imagine you only becoming more suited to life as a college student as the days go by. Good luck!
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Maddocks: House supports Boehner's re-election, offers speaker free trip on the Kulluk
Eager to signal that the turmoil and division of the 112th Congress is a matter of the past, House members re-elected Representative John A. Boehner of Ohio as speaker of the House and presented him with a ticket for a free trip aboard the Shell Oil drilling rig, the Kulluk, good for its next trip through the Gulf of Alaska.
"I hear that is a really beautiful place this time of year," an emotional Mr. Boehner said. "I am overwhelmed."
Mr. Boehner, in his opening address to the new House, said that he would make survival on wild seas and uninhabitable islands his singular focus for this session.
"You can put a price on the debt ceiling, but you can't put a price on my and the country's survival," he said.
Mr. Boehner said he was grateful to those who helped orchestrate his re-election as speaker and his place aboard a diesel-filled vessel traveling in inhospitable waters during the bleakest winter months.
"This is a dream come true," the speaker said, tearing up briefly as he watched images of the 28,000-ton drilling rig being tossed about by 35-foot waves. "This is something I will be able to talk about with my children and with your children - provided I survive."
"If you have come here to see me off to the Gulf of Alaska," he added, "you have come to the right place. Just show me where the door is."
President Obama called Mr. Boehner to congratulate him, wishing the speaker well on his new adventure. Mr. Obama expressed confidence in the weather-worthiness of the Kulluck and the congressman, saying that if the Kulluck ran aground with Mr. Boehner aboard — which the president called likely — the thick steel hull would almost certainly protect the oil rig from damage and the "battleship-stout" constitution of the speaker "would hopefully" make him more than a match for the Arctic.
"I am glad to see the president is aboard with our program, finally," said Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader in the Senate.
Some Republican House members who have been thorns in the speaker's side for two years, seemed to soften their opposition to Mr. Boehner once it became clear that he would accept their offer to board the Kulluck at the earliest possible opportunity.
Tim Huelskamp of Kansas called the agreement reached with Mr. Boehner "an example of how compromise can work in this town."
"I think there were a lot of lawmakers here who didn't think the speaker would be willing to take the deal," Mr. Huelskamp said. "But they didn't realize how much he wants the speakership. And compared to the grief he has been getting here, a trip through hurricane-strength winds in the Gulf of Alaska will be a piece a cake. I'm not even sure he will want to come back."
Representative Peter T. King, a Long Island Republican, urged New York's well-heeled donor community to contribute to Mr. Boehner's trip, saying he could not, in all good conscience, rest until he was sure that the speaker would have the means and the opportunity to make the long winter journey from the Beaufort Sea through the Bering Strait with the help of Royal Dutch/Shell's accident-prone Arctic oil drilling program.
"This procedure that is laid out is fully acceptable," Mr. King said, assuring Mr. Boehner that his colleagues "would take care of everything."
"Fact is," said Mr. King, "we are getting what New York and New Jersey need, and that is what counts."
After finally getting through to Mr. Boehner on Wednesday morning, Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey expressed confidence in the speaker's decision in his characteristically blunt way.
"I'm not going to get into the specifics of how long I am going to hug John Boehner," he told reporters in New Jersey. "But what I will tell you is there is no reason at the moment for me to do anything but embrace his trip to sub-zero climes."
Mr. Boehner said he plans to spend the next few days shopping for a new parka, SmartWool socks, and a Davis Master sextant in preparation for his trip to the northern wilds.
Looking confident and fit, the speaker, his feet immersed in near freezing water and a tanning lamp trained on his face, told reporters that his door on the Kulluck would remain open to anyone who wanted to speak to him.
"Just because I will be far removed from civilization, that doesn't mean I will be out of touch," Mr. Boehner said, adding, "I am looking at this trip as a new beginning for everybody."
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On Tuesday, after review by a patent examiner, the United States Patent and Trademark Office awarded Apple an additional design patent relating to the iPad's "ornamental" design. The ornamental design feature encapsulated in US Patent D670,286 for a "Portable display device" appears to be a literal rounded rectangle. But whether or not this patent would be useful against Apple's rival and alleged "copy cat" Samsung in court is unclear.
Apple had originally asserted design patent D504,889 against Samsung as part of its massive lawsuit alleging that Samsung copied Apple's iPhone and iPad devices to make its competing Galaxy S and Galaxy Tab devices. That design patent, filed in 2004 and awarded in 2005, appears to be based on an early iPad prototype.
US federal judge Lucy Koh had originally awarded Apple a preliminary injunction against Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 device based on her judgement that Samsung likely infringed the '889 patent. However, a jury later ruled that the Samsung device did not infringe this particular patent, though Samsung had infringed several other patents in the process of designing various smartphones and tablets. Samsung noted that it was "unfortunate that patent law can be manipulated to give one company a monopoly over rectangles with rounded corners," and the injunction was later rescinded.
The '286 patent awarded on Tuesday appears to give Apple the exact patent the Samsung and Apple critics have erroneously claimed that the '889 patent was. The patent includes a number of drawings of the original iPad design, with most of its uniquely identifying features in dashed lines. As stated in the patent description, "broken lines in the Figures show portions of the portable display device which form no part of the claimed design."
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It's uncertain whether this patent on portable display devices with an overall rounded rectangle shape and flat front surface would be of any use to Apple in court. "This design patent gives Apple no new advantage, because no one is out there trying to market an iPad lookalike," Lea Shaver, Associate Professor at Indiana University's McKinney School of Law, told Wired.
However, the patent examiner for the '286 patent cites an exhaustive list of references in her research, including most of the devices Samsung considered prior art for Apple's earlier '889 patent. This includes various digital photo frames, the Knight Ridder tablet concept, and HP's early tablet PCs. Even with all the prior references, Apple's design element appears to have passed muster.
Shaver also apparently based her evaluation of the utility of the '286 patent on details that aren't considered part of the ornamental design, such as the home button shape and placement. "The Samsung Galaxy doesn't have a center bottom circle, it doesn't have a camera in the top center, and although its back panel slopes to meet the front, the angle of that slope is different," Shaver said. Some of those features, including is thin, flat bezel, screen size, and home button shape and position, are covered in a separate design patent (D627,777).


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Suicide squeeze beats White Sox again
Lou Piniella may claim to dislike the suicide squeeze, but the Cubs manager certainly has no problem calling for it against the White Sox.
As manager of the 2000 Seattle Mariners, Piniella asked Carlos Guillen to execute one in Game 3 of the American League Division Series, and Guillen did so, bringing home the game-winning and series-ending run.
Though it wasn't quite the same stage, Piniella pulled out the ol' suicide again Saturday, and it again beat the Sox, this time 2-1 in front of a sellout crowd of 39,043 at U.S. Cellular Field.
Ryan Theriot - who wasn't even supposed to be in the game - played the part of Guillen, and Angel Pagan played the role of Rickey Henderson, coming across the plate with what proved to be the game-winner.
"We had a guy up at home plate, Theriot, who can execute the bunt, and we had some speed at third base with Pagan," Piniella said, "so we took a shot, and Theriot laid down a perfect bunt, and Pagan didn't break too soon and helped us win a baseball game."
It assured the Cubs of a series win, marking the first time the North Siders have won both series from the Sox in the same season. They started playing each other in two Crosstown Classic series each year in 1999.
"I had a feeling," Sox manager Ozzie Guillen said of the bunt. "He got behind in the count, and I thought maybe if he got ahead in the count. But he put it in the right place.
"He's (out)managing me, just in case you want to hear that," Guillen continued, getting angrier at the repeated question about whether he expected the bunt. "Lou (out)managed Ozzie today. That can be the highlight today."
Cliff Floyd started the ninth-inning rally with a seeing-eye single up the middle off Bobby Jenks (2-3), then was pulled for Pagan. After pinch-hitter Daryle Ward singled to left-center to put men on the corners with one out, up came Theriot.
Theriot had replaced Mark DeRosa - who was responding negatively to medicine - in the starting lineup and laid down a perfect squeeze in front of home plate.
"It's one of the most exciting plays, and it's fun to do," Theriot said. "It's not something you practice all the time. ...
"Personally, I want to be in that spot every night. Having the game on your shoulders. I embrace that. It's a position I've always wanted to be in since I was a kid."
With Pagan off on the pitch - and third-base coach Mike Quade not far behind - he easily crossed home with what proved to be the game-winner.
"You don't see it a lot, but it was a great time for it," Pagan said. "Theriot is a pretty good bunter. I was ready."
Considering how the game was going up to that point, it was about the only way either team was going to score a run.
For the second straight day, Alfonso Soriano led off the game with a homer. The Sox tied the game in the bottom half of the frame when Scott Podsednik - in his first game back from a trip to the disabled list - came home on Jim Thome's groundout to short.
From there, starters Javier Vazquez and Rich Hill shut the weak offenses down.
Vazquez allowed just five hits in seven innings, while Hill gave up just six in 5 2/3.
It then became a battle of the bullpens - something neither team wants - with the Cubs holding on.
Michael Wuertz (1-2) got the final out in the eighth, while Bob Howry replaced the injured Ryan Dempster (oblique muscle) and threw a perfect ninth for his first save of the year.
Now the Cubs will try to finish off a sweep of the Sox, who have lost four straight, nine of 11, 14 of 16 and 21 of 26.
"We have bigger issues to deal with right now other than losing to the Cubs," Jenks said. "Yeah, it's a rivalry, but we have bigger things on our plate right now."
The Cubs, on the other hand, hope to keep things going and maybe use this series win to propel them.
"It got the team going and pumped up," Pagan said of the squeeze. "If we keep winning ballgames like this, we're going to go far."
More Cubs and Sox coverage can be found online at www.dailysouthtown.com/sports.


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Windows 2012 Server compatibility
There are a number of different ways that Samba can be considered compatible with Windows and so this page attempts to try to explain some of them (and which ones might be regarded as important). A number of these details will obviously apply more generally to other Windows versions.
SMB protocol features
As Windows 2012 (and 2012 R2) ships with a particular version of SMB, clients which expect to negotiate a certain version may see differences between Windows and Samba. SMB allows for many optional features which are negotiated and servers generally support multiple versions of SMB for interoperability with different clients. This means that servers and clients will speak a wide variety of flavours of SMB, meaning interoperability issues with Samba are generally limited to individual applications and use-cases which have stricter requirements on their SMB connections (encryption and supported ciphers, resilient handles).
RPC server features
This is similar to SMB, many calls or structures have been deprecated over time. In many cases Samba does not implement every call, or has calls which do nothing. There may even be entire RPC pipes which are unimplemented, although their functionality is reproduced in some other way e.g. eventlog6 logging.
Active Directory
Domain member
Joining Windows as a domain member to a Samba domain
The process for this is described in the following page:
This is generally expected to work without any special effort (compared to a Windows domain), with the supported versions listed here:
Joining Samba as a domain member to a Windows domain
The instructions for joining any Active Directory domain remain the same between a Windows AD and a Samba AD.
Domain controller
When considering the compatibility of domain controllers, there are least three initial aspects that must be considered:
- The schema level
- The domain (or forest) preparation level
- The functional level
On the Windows platform, all three of these are resolved by a tool called adprep.exe. In previous versions, this was run manually by administrators, but in newer versions (2012+), this is automatically run by domain controller promotion on Windows. Unfortunately, adprep itself and the newer methods they use to invoke it are both incompatible with Samba. As a standard workaround, administrators have been advised to join 2008 / 2008R2 versions of Windows (and transfer all of the FSMO roles to it) so that adprep can run on the 2008 DC when joining a 2012 DC.
In Samba, trust support isn't yet complete and so in general terms, the domain is often considered the forest.
Schema level
With new versions of Windows, applications may require new objects whose schema description is not stored in Active Directory. Newer domain controllers might want to provide extra functionality which is specific to that controller and is not broadly available (or advertised) across the domain. Similarly newer versions available to client machines may also wish to record additional details and provide additional functionality. Therefore, the most basic requirement for these applications is an updated schema which supports classes and attributes that allow this information to be stored in the directory.
In practice, domain controllers seem to rely on both the schema level and the preparation level before they will even interact with domain controllers running other versions. Updating schema versions should be compatible with every version of Windows (for instance, 2012 R2 schema should work on 2008 DCs), as they do not imply functionality across the domain (only behaviour local to the instance).
From Samba 4.11, our default schema is 2012 R2. Prior to Samba 4.11, our default schema was 2008 R2. For those running 2008 R2 schema and want to upgrade to 2012 R2 schema, you may run the domain schema upgrade command.
While Windows versions require newer schema when joining to a domain of a previous version (e.g. 2012 R2 join to 2008 domain), Samba has no such requirement to join Windows domains (and likely isn't ever going to).
Preparation level
Where schema defines what objects can be created in the domain, the preparation step ensures that any directory differences required by a newer functional level are enforced. For instance, certain containers or users might be necessary in newer functional versions (of Active Directory).
Joining a 2012 R2 DC to a 2008 domain requires not only the schema, but also this step too (Windows also requires this step, but should be done remotely by adprep during the process).
Functional level
Functional level basically describes what version of Active Directory you are running (which in Windows is tied to the OS version, but with newer OS able to run at earlier functional levels).
|Samba does not currently support any attempts to update the functional level
The samba-tool command to raise your functional level is not safe to use against Samba (and probably not even safe against Windows either). The tool is currently incomplete in that it does not check for the appropriate schema version or preparation level before deciding to change the functional level. Please do not run this! If changing the functional level is necessary, using Windows to perform the change is required.
FSMO roles
Schema master (forest)
Domain naming master (forest)
PDC emulator (domain)
Most of the functionality should be implemented at a 2008 R2 level. However, notably we currently do not implement certain aspects of authentication and password changes (including urgent replication) which would normally forward to the PDC emulator in Samba. In this case, the issue not with the PDC (which presumably does nothing special but respond as per normal) but it is that we don't respect the PDC emulator in the rest of the domain. Normally the PDC is considered authoritative, but in Samba, the replication must propagate naturally before certain logins may work.
RID master (domain)
Infrastructure master (domain + domain DNS)
Joining Windows as a domain controller in a Samba domain
2008 and 2008 R2 Windows DC
This should work without any special work.
2012 and 2012 R2 Windows DC
Yes, this works, but you need to have the latest schema + run functional prep.
2016 and above
Not yet complete. All the infrastructure is in place, but the work needs to be done/funded.
Joining Samba as a domain controller in a Windows domain
2008 or 2008R2 functional level
Generally speaking, this should work. At times there have been replication issues (and workarounds for them), but stable versions of Samba should join without issue.
2012 functional level or above
This is currently not possible as it would require Samba to implement 2012 functional level (at least enough to operate most features).
Attempting to join will trigger this error message:
DsAddEntry failed with status WERR_ACCESS_DENIED info (8567, 'WERR_DS_INCOMPATIBLE_VERSION')
In reality, Samba could in fact join and pretend it ran the correct functional level, but this has security consequences and is not generally considered safe. The advice is to downgrade the forest (and domain) functional level on the Windows DC to 2008 R2 (and turn off all the associated features in 2012) before joining Samba.
Trusted domain environments
Samba still has a number of limitations to its trusted domain support. In a mixed environment, expect Samba to allow or disallow operations differently from Windows. More information needs to be provided here on exact scenarios.


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Cee Lo Green is being sued by concert promoters for more than $14 million, TMZ reports.
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Cierra Management Group filed a lawsuit claiming that they paid $243,000 upfront for Green to perform two Christmas concerts. While the musician is being sued for allegedly refusing to do the concerts, his team is being sued for "a scheme designed to finagle funding capital for concerts they would not manifest." In other words, Cierra believes that Green's people never planned on having him fulfill the concert obligations. Cierra is seeking $14.2 million.
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